Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Matador (1986) and Law of Desire (1987), Almodovar displayed his brazen assurance of style and vaulted from comic realism to soap-operatic mannerism. Matador is a contemporary vampire story: an ex-bullfighter and a woman lawyer, believing that death is the ultimate climax, impale each victim on the cold steel of their lust. Law of Desire draws a bent triangle: a gay movie director, his transsexual sister (Maura) and her adopted child's rightful mother (played by a Spanish drag queen). Revelations of murder, incest, suicide and lotsa hot sex follow, but the tone remains knowing, tender. As Matador...
Using easy-to-follow formulas, the author demonstrates that the chance of falling victim to terrorists is less than 1 in 1.5 million (compared with, for example, 1 chance in 68,000 of choking to death or 1 in only 5,300 of dying in a car crash), that the number of possible five-card poker hands is 2,598,960 and that the size of a human cell is to that of a person as that of a person is to the size of Rhode Island. Paulos also notes that 367 people have to be gathered to ensure that...
Another question: Why are so many people innumerate? Adults who fumble with numbers have been "intimidated by officious and sometimes sexist teachers," says Paulos, himself a victim of inept instruction. "They feel that there are mathematical minds and nonmathematical minds." The result of that misconception is a "gap that threatens eventually to lead either to unfounded and crippling anxieties or to impossible and economically paralyzing demands for risk-free guarantees...
...rape victim spoke to the marchers, asserting that campus safety needed to be improved. The Harvard University Police Department later upgraded security at the Science Center...
...unintended racial insensitivity, resulting perhaps from lack of awareness or ignorance, and at the other end overt, violent and intentionally hurtful racism. These two incidents and others reported to my office demonstrate how vulnerable this community is, how vulnerable we each are to either engage in or be a victim of racism...